The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-07-09
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street industry.
Mrs CLEVELAND will be twenty-three
years old July 81.
1T is said of Cuba that every thing is
taxed there except the air.
DooR-KNoB lanterns on which is the num-
ber of your house are new
WALTER MURRAY GIBSON is the name Of
King Kalakaua's right hand man.
GOVERNOR TORRES, of Sonora, offers 500
each for heads Of Apache Indians.
ST. LOUIS has now twenty-four condemn
ed and accused murderers in her Jail.
FIVE thousand hogsheads Of tobacco
were burned in a Louisville fire the other
day.
Missouri heads the list in the condition
of the wheat crop, showing full 100 per
cent.
IT is estimated that there are sixty
thousand colored Knights of Labor in the
South.
A DAUGHTER of Senator Enstis, of Louisi.
ana, is the best horseback rider in Wash
ington.
The Rochester Advertiser offers Henry
George farm, If he will move on it and
60 to work.
Or 1888 "superfuous women" in Mas
sachusetts more than eighty-fve per cent
are widows.
A RECENT writer on China puts the pop
ulation of the Empire at four hundred and
fifty million.
CARLYLE's old house at Chelsea, visited
by many tourists, is in q scandalous state
of dilapidation.
VICAR in England has greatly distin-
guished himself by refusing to baptize a
child Jubilee"
ENGLISH children are to be pitied this
year. Some of the new ones are being
named Jubiletta.
FIVE hundred more acres have been
planted to watermelcns in the South this
year than in 1886. =
THE New York Legislature passed bill
requiring life-saving rope to be placed
in every hotel room.
AN old rusty Barlow knife has been
found in quarry near Greenup KY, i'm
bedded in solid rock.
Mr.. WESTINGHOUSE, Of air-brake fame,
has taken out about twelve hundred pat
ents of various kinds.
MIR. PARNELL does not improve in health,
and it is now said that he is suffering from
cancer of the stomach.
PLYMOUTH Church, Brooklyn, will be
shut for the summer. No such thing ever
happened to it before.
ASTRONOMY has new term in its nomen-
clature. A New York Sunday is now
known as Il side-dooreal day.
The New York Tribune says "the selling
of the toy pistol to children ought to be
made an indictable offense."
Mrs. MARK HOPKINS is building S.
OO0, 600 residence in Massachusetts. She
will have s2s, ,OOO, 600 left to hire servants.
GOVERNOR HILL has signed bill making
it unlawful for railroads in New York
State to use stoves in passenger cars after
May, 1888.
PROF. F. N. Crouch, composer of ''Kath-
leen Mavourneen," who is eighty-seven
years old, is the author of twenty-seven
children.
JAY GOULD recently purchased thirty
three acres of valuable land at Mt. Vernon
and made the regents of that institution a
present of it.
JACK SHAW, of Shamokin, Pa, vowed not
to wear a coat while a Democratic Admin
istration was at the helm, and so far he has
kept the vow.
PHILADELPHIA is annoyed because the
honest face of Ben Franklin is put on the
new one-cent postage stamps. They think
Ben amounts to more than cent.
The wife of John Murray, Beaver Falls
Pa.) blacksmith, whose luck was hard,
learned to help him at the forge, and
is now as good blacksmith as he is.
THE ghost of Mrs. Roxalana Druse. the
woman who was hung recently in New
York State, for killing her husband is
said to return to earth in the early morn.
ing.
SIX carts and twenty men have for six
weeks been engaged in cutting and haul.
ing branches from Washington shade trees
that are white with the cocoons of the
tent caterpillar.
NEW York Judge has decided that
tenants lease covers the outside walls of
the building as well as the inside, and that
he has right to use the former for ad.
vertising purposes.
THE women of the British Empire have
just shown that they are not lacking in
charitable impulses. Three million of
them have contributed to a fund of $3.50, 600
for Queen Victoria. 1t is jubilee pres.
ent.
AFTER spending long season in Europe
Fred Douglass says he is ''comine home
"A'i 'hS hhoWi iSuSc ludI uue average man
in the United States is better fed, clothed
and sheltered than in any other part Of
the world"
CoNNEcTIcUT's strict Sunday laws have
been stopping all railroad trains, but the
State railroad commissioners have issued
an order allowing passenger trains to run
between the hours Of 10 a. m. and 8 D. m.
on Sunday.
JAMES REDHEAD and Harry Anderson
went swimming in Lake Contrary, near St.
Joseph, Mo-, the other day and drowned
because party Of ladies and gentlemen In
boat near by were too modest to rescue
them without their clothes on.
DIR. JOSEPH F. GEIsLER, Official chemist
to the New York Mercantile Exchange
and to the New York Dairy Commission,
has discovered that poisonous compound
OF lead is being used tor the enameling of
the leather sweat bands in hats.
The Cornell University trustees have
sold the pine timber on twenty-five thou
sand acres Of land in Wisconsin, receiving
therefor half million dollars.
THE only sovereign still living who was
reigning when Queen Victoria ascended
the throne is Dom Pedro, Of Brazil. AS
Dom was only twelve years old at the
time he was reigning only in name.
TRUST the wide-eyed American to take
care Of himself wherever his lot may be
cast. He chanced to be taking an airing
In London when the Queens jubilee came
along, and knocked 5000 clear money out
OF IT In q day by sublettinp o. n huiId;ns,